Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) was an English novelist with views ... Aldous Huxley thought enough of the book to plunder it wholesale in Brave New World. As the title suggests, Crewe Train tells the story ...

POOR Denham, dazed and bewildered, not allowed to stop at Birmingham, but hustled along to Crewe! Relentless train of destiny ... talk! Miss Macaulay never wrote a cleverer book than this.

Rose Macaulay must have always looked like the perfect English bluestocking. Many of her novels were best sellers in their time - Potterism, Crewe Train and The Towers of Trebizond - and she was ...